Eagle goes on to describe the silence that settled on the school in the weeks which followed these momentous events. He attributes Sutcliffe’s final fall from grace to parental pressure. But Council had not always kept its distance from matters of school discipline, as we saw with Wilson and Bromby. Sometimes, under petition from teachers, pupils or parents to interfere in disciplinary action taken by a headmaster, Council weakened, This time there was a combination of parental pressure as well as the opportunity for dismissal that prompted the Council to overrule Sutcliffe’s disciplinary decisions.
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